00:00 Student organizers boot former SNL writer from stage during standup routine for jokes deemed offensive
27:00 Alejandria, the face of Apple’s Inclusion & Diversity, turns against Apple
31:00 The Alt-Right: What Everyone Needs to Know, by George Hawley, December 2019, Oxford University Press
1:01:00 The Alt Right is porny
1:20:00 Ron Jeremy
1:25:00 Porn’s Two Biggest Male Stars Stand Accused of Serial Sexual Assault. Where’s the Outrage?
1:30:00 Max Hardcore
1:37:00 Luke’s guide to activism
1:38:00 Bronze Age Perverts strikes out at the black pill crowd
1:42:00 A TRUMP-HATER’S GUIDE TO MUELLER SKEPTICISM
1:48:00 Videos pop up on news sites and they’re hard to remove
1:50:00 FBI email chain may provide most damning evidence of FISA abuses yet
1:55:00 France’s Macron scraps fuel tax after protests
2:04:00 Baby Jesus In Cage As Part Of Dedham Church’s Immigration-Themed Nativity Scene
2:30:00 Affirmative action, sports and rape on campus
2:44:00 Can We Finally Stop Talking About ‘Male’ and ‘Female’ Brains?
* “I really dislike when people who are older say that our generation needs to be exposed to the real world.”
* Lara Bazelon: I’m a Democrat and a Feminist. And I Support Betsy DeVos’s Title IX Reforms.
* PETA says phrases like ‘bring home the bacon’ are comparable to racism and homophobia
* Can We Finally Stop Talking About ‘Male’ and ‘Female’ Brains?
* ‘Transactional’ Sex and a Secret Resignation Letter: Takeaways From a Report on Les Moonves
* Apparently, prostitution doesn’t have a happy ending. Who knew?
Shadowbanned on Twitter. Accounts have been banned on Facebook, Tinder, OK Cupid, and Seeking Arrangment. My advertising platforms have been taken offline. Now, Tumblr is banning adult content.
No job. No relationships. No community. This is sex work in 2018.
Stop saving me.
— Addy Finch back in Detroit (@Addy_Finch) December 3, 2018
* The Death Camp of Tolerance Watch
* T.A. Frank: IS THIS IT?: A TRUMP-HATER’S GUIDE TO MUELLER SKEPTICISM
Mueller’s comportment suggests a man who’s fallen prey to the same state of mind that warped Ken Starr—namely disgust over the people you’re investigating and a desire to justify the sunk capital. Even if the special counsel presents one hell of a report, Democrats must ask: was it worth it?
* FBI email chain may provide most damning evidence of FISA abuses yet
* Woke Catholicism will be end of the Church in the West Baby Jesus In Cage As Part Of Dedham Church’s Immigration-Themed Nativity Scene
* France’s Macron scraps fuel tax after protests
Supposedly heterodox thinker @BretWeinstein dismisses the hypothesis of innate group differences as a "modern creation myth." Provides no argument, refuses to debate, & impugns @StefanMolyneux's motivations.
The "heterodox" movement is rotten. Worships the same old sacred cows. https://t.co/Kelt3Rszfl
— Nathan Cofnas (@nathancofnas) December 5, 2018
The Alt-Right’s Moment Has Come and Gone
This piece is adapted from The Alt-Right: What Everyone Needs to Know, by George Hawley, December 2019, Oxford University Press, 264 pages.
The Alt-Right will continue to be the subject of books and articles for the foreseeable future. As the most effective recent manifestation of white nationalism in the United States, it warrants serious and sober analysis. It may, however, be time to start discussing the Alt-Right in the past tense. To be clear, the extreme right continues to exist, and racist and anti-Semitic violence remains a horrific threat. I fear we will see more violence from people radicalized in the near future. Nevertheless, the Alt-Right movement (to the degree it ever was a movement) is no longer gaining ground. At this point, it is worth assessing where the Alt-Right fits in the history of the openly racist right, and how it differed from its ideological predecessors.
As the Alt-Right was growing, people in the movement often discussed what they derisively called “White Nationalism 1.0.” The term refers to those white nationalist groups and individuals that were active in the late 20th century and the first years of the 21st century.
The Alt-Right used that term mockingly because those groups were ineffective to the point of hurting their own cause. They had a deserved reputation for violence and had little to offer well-adjusted white Americans. Those groups were known for their constant infighting, and their leaders attempted to attract cult-like followings. In some cases, those white nationalists formed literal religious cults.
In its early days, when it was still almost entirely online, the Alt-Right mostly sought to create distance between itself and groups like the American Nazi Party and its successors—although there were differences of opinion on this subject within the Alt-Right. The Alt-Right briefly succeeded in creating a brand that appealed to some people not on the margins of society. By the end of 2016, however, the more radical elements of the Alt-Right seemed to have gained the upper hand, and it became less conspicuously different from earlier white nationalist movements.
When I first examined the Alt-Right, I viewed it as a new phenomenon, one representing a break from its extreme right ancestors despite promoting a similar ideology. In hindsight, the distinctiveness of the Alt-Right becomes less obvious. Most commentators note that the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which turned deadly, was the moment the Alt-Right became viewed as just another Ku Klux Klan or National Alliance.
In this regard, the Alt-Right has followed a similar trajectory as its antecedents. For the extreme right, a reputation for violence is usually self-defeating. After the Oklahoma City bombing, the militia movement stopped making gains. When members of racist groups engaged in violence in the 1980s and 1990s, their organizations were sued to the point of oblivion. Lawsuits, even when unsuccessful, are one of the more effective tactics against the extreme right, as they sap the resources of groups already operating on shoestring budgets. The Alt-Right has discovered this over the last year.
But even in its salad days, when the Alt-Right was mostly a trollish Internet subculture, it was already mimicking many of its predecessors’ methods, perhaps inadvertently.
